₦airaland Forum

PapaBrowne:
How can 98% fail?? That is an indictment on the teachers, not exactly on the students!
Its also probably an indictment on NECO itself. There is something just not right with the concept of a 98% failure. Things cannot just be that bad.

Don't private schools also write NECO?? There surely are a lot of very standard private schools in Nigeria with very capable kids.
I really don't believe this figure. Except  maybe I'm so out of touch with the reality of the comatose Nigerian education system.

Nostalgic memories!! I Couldn't get enough of Voltron & Superted!!

netotse:
but sebi if we make enough noise they can soft-pedal now. . .

netotse:
this is the kind of thing we need to be organising protests against!

At least 10 people have been killed in an attack on a mainly Christian village near the violence-hit Nigerian city of Jos, officials say.

Eyewitnesses said houses were burnt and villagers were cut down with machetes.

State radio reported that the raiders were disguised as soldiers.



State government spokesman Dan Manjang said the attack happened in Riyom area.

Hundreds of people have died in communal violence between Muslim and Christian groups near Jos this year.

Although the clashes take place between Muslims and Christians, observers say the underlying causes are economic and political.

stillwater:
Removing religion out of this is ridiculous.

Why the Jos issue is prominent is because Christians in the North have refused to the the 'turn the other cheek'. These conflicts did not start in January now. This issue is getting a world audience because there have been retailiations, if it were before where Christians 'turn the other cheek' the issue would have been "one of those occassional outbursts" that was doused not by the government but the siddon look, forgiving spirits of christians.

peacettw:
This has nothing and i mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the students. I am a graduate now (Medicine) but will never forgive NECO for their gross incompetece in giving me an F9 in Maths.  This was after i had gotten all As in my WAEC with an A1 in maths in both WAEC and GCE, an A2 in Further Maths and a Maths related scholarship. I ve thrown their certificate in the dust bin and i can't think of any better place for it than that. Nonsense

tpia.:
22 yaradua threads on this page alone.

wahala dey oh.

A former Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Edet Akpan, was, on Sunday, kidnapped by unknown gunmen in his hometown, Iwok Nsit, in Nsit Ibom Local Government of Akwa Ibom State.

NEXT gathered that Mr. Akpan, a retired army General and leading member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, was taken away within the premises of his local Qua Iboe church, close to his private residence where he had gone to worship.

The armed men were said to have shot sporadically into the air before forcing him into a waiting car and drive him away.

Information has been sketchy regarding either the brains behind the kidnap or the reason, though reports said the action might not be unconnected with growing political intrigues playing out in the state in the run up to the 2011 governorship race.

Mr. Akpan was a prominent ally of former governor, Victor Attah, and a key player in that administration. He was also said to have been close to the incumbent governor, Godswill Akpabio, who appointed him Chairman of Universal Energy Limited, a company involved in the oil and gas business.

Royal Dutch Shell has shut three oil flow stations in Nigeria's Niger Delta region after a pipeline was sabotaged, a company spokeswoman has said.

She said Saturday's leak on the Trans Ramos oil pipeline was confirmed "to have been caused by sabotage". The leak was later stopped.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

It came shortly after Nigeria's militant group Mend said it was ending the truce it declared last October.

An alleged group spokesman said Mend did not believe the government would restore control of resources to local people.

Mend has demanded that residents be given a greater share in profits from oil resources and land.

It warned oil companies to prepare for what it called an all-out onslaught against installations and personnel.

Analysts later said it was not immediately clear if this statement came from the whole of Mend - the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta - or just a faction that did not accept the offer of an amnesty from Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua.

Militants have carried out a series of attacks which have cost Nigeria millions in lost revenue over the years.

The attacks have meant that facilities in the area have been unable to work beyond two-thirds capacity, costing $1bn a month in lost revenue.

pls help me tell people u know dat dey shd not buy drinks or apples/fruits from Hausa/ Muslims hawkers. Dey considered in their meeting to poison drink & sell @ churches areas and town to kill christians from 2morrow! pls spread de good news. I also heard that they intend to poision suya as well. Pls lets hold our throat oh!-----------